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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

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...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...hot and shell have respected, although they have borne their part on every battlefield where Napoleon commanded. There had been nothing unusual in his... ...t had singled him out as the man who best deserved to receive it after the battle of Borodino. He belonged to that small minority of undemonstrative r... ...t the entrance of the square. A pig wallow- ing in a heap of straw was the first inhabitant encountered by Genestas. At the sound of horse hoofs the c... ...re earth made the flooring of the cottage. It had been beaten level in the first instance, but in course of time it had grown rough and uneven, so tha... ... after all he soon caught a glimpse through the trees of the little town’s first cluster of houses, and then of all the roofs that crowded about a con... ... a stranger impatient to see you, I have come to seek you on your field of battle, instead of awaiting you at your house. Pray do not disturb yourself...

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...e Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...orest of Russia. All this is quite over and above such writing of facts at first hand as Mr. Patrick McGill and a dozen other real experiencing soldie... ...war. 2 2 2 2 2 I avow myself an extreme Pacifist. I am against the man who first takes up the weapon. I carry my pacifism far beyond the ambiguous lit... ...sty inunda- tion. He made little stiff horizontal gestures with his hands. First one had to build a dam and stop the rush of it, so; then one had to o... ... westward point of the great curve was Sagrado with its broken bridge. The battle of Goritzia was really not fought at Goritzia at all. What happened ... ...trian adventure. There is some justification for a claim that the decisive battle of the war was fought upon the soil of Italy. There is still more ju... ...s are the sole proofs that life may still go on. The villages of this wide battle region are not ruined; they are obliterated. It is just possible to ...

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Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

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...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...d His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... persons than the King and Queen Marie Therese as godparents, and made his first formal appearance at Court when seventeen. He tells us that he was no... ...ife Charlotte de l’Aubepine. I was the only child of that marriage. By his first wife, Diana de Budos, my father had had only a daughter. He married h... ...f the spring, had drawn away all the young men of my age to commence their first campaign; and, what piqued me most, the Duc de Chartres was there, to... ...mes II. of England, then a refugee in France, had advised the King to give battle to the English fleet. Joined to that of Holland it was very superior... ... that the (exiled) King of England looked on at this 13 Saint-Simon naval battle from the shore; and was accused of allowing ex- pressions of partial... ...ld ornaments of my coat was torn away, but I received no wound. During the battle our briga- dier, Quoadt, was killed before my eyes. The Duc de Feuil...

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... H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...T ract of the N. M. R. and H.) CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER THE FIRST – THE FIRST – THE FIRST – THE FIRST – THE FIRST – THE DREAM THE DREAM... ...shop did not really believe in the Creeds he uttered. And that unfortunate first admission stuck terribly in his throat. Oh! Why had he made it? 7 H ... ...p in the darkness, and felt gropingly in this unaccustomed bed and bedroom first for the edge of the bed and then for the electric light that was poss... ... of one vast adventure in space and time…. Presently the smoke and dust of battle hid the great dis- tances again, but they could not altogether destr... ...beral civilization. He emerged from these stunning apprehensions after the Battle of the Marne, to find himself busy upon a score of dispersed and dis... ...rn spots upon the dark; here was Russia under the noontide, and so great a battle of artillery raging on the Dunajec as no man had ever seen before; w...

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...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreig...

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...e Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...the stables, miserably discontented; and hardy horsewomen who slept at the first chord of Schumann were born, horribly misplaced, into the garden of K... ...e struck at last she struck with a vengeance. For four years she smote our firstborn and heaped on us plagues of which Egypt never dreamed. They were ... ...y gave it practically unlimited opportunities of displaying. Thus were the firstborn of Heart- break House smitten; and the young, the innocent, the h... ... made doubtful by the fact that it did its worst in places remote from the battlefields, notably on the west coast of North America and in India. But ... ...ity of that realm loftily and even ostentatiously above the rancors of the battle-field. Tearing the Garter from the Kaiser’s leg, striking the Ger- m... ..., over an item of seven shil- lings for refreshments? Little Minds and Big Battles Nobody will be able to understand the vagaries of public feeling du...

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...and before he went to Weimar, he began to write ?Egmont? After working on it at intervals for twelve years, he finished it at Rome in 1787. The scene of the drama is laid in the Low Countries at the beginning of the revolt against Spain. In the fifteenth century Philip of Burgundy had usurped dominion over several of the provinces of the Netherlands, and through him they h...

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... Acts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. Anna Swanwick is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of lit... ...who needs it not. Long live Count Egmont! Buyck, it is for you to give the first toast; give us your master’s health. Buyck. With all my heart; here’s... ...uyck. The hero of Gravelines. All. Hurrah! Ruysum. St. Quintin was my last battle. I was hardly able to crawl along, and could with difficulty carry m... ...al, as the king loves to have it. I relate how the rage of the iconoclasts first broke out at St. Omer. How a furious multitude, with staves, hatchets... ..., hatchets, hammers, lad- ders, and cords, accompanied by a few armed men, first assailed the chapels, churches, and convents, drove out the worshippe... ...burg.) The drum is resounding, And shrill the fife plays; My love, for the battle, His brave troop arrays; He lifts his lance high, And the people he ... ...gmont!”— I grew as red as fire. Clara. Could I help crying out? It was the battle of Gravelines, and I found in the picture the letter C. and then loo...